Sport

The city of Bandung and its surrounding communities is a fanatical Persib Bandung fans, which is a football club who play in the Indonesia Super League competition, the club uses as a headquarters Siliwangi Stadium and a place for home games, but in the season 2009-2010 LSI Stadium The Starling Harupat also used this club for home games. Also in town there are also several other football clubs who play in Division 3 League competitions Indonesia such as Bandung Raya and Saint Prima Bandung. Garuda Flexi is a basketball club based in the city and play in competitions IBL.

Tourism and Culture

Since the opening of the Toll Road Cipularang, the city of Bandung has become the main purpose of enjoying the holiday weekend, especially from people coming from surrounding Jakarta. Besides being a tourist town shopping, the city of Bandung is also known for its large number of old buildings by the Dutch architecture, including Sate House now serves as the West Java provincial government office, Building Pakuan which is now the official residence of the governor of West Java province, Gedung Dwi Warna or Indische Pensioenfonds now used by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia for the Regional Office of Directorate General XII Pembendaharaan Bandung, Villa Isola is now used Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung Station Hall or Station and Post Office Building, Bandung.
Bandung city also has several public art spaces like museums, theaters and galleries including Building Independence, venue for the Conference of the Asia-Africa Summit in 1955, Sri Baduga Museum, founded in 1974 by former Kawedanan Tegallega old buildings, the Museum of Geology Bandung, Mandala Museum Wangsit Siliwangi, Barli Museum, Cultural Center Foundation Building, Building Indonesia Sues formerly a place of Ir. Sukarno delivering a phenomenal defense plea (Indonesia Sues) in the Dutch colonial period, West Java Cultural Park (TBJB) and Rumentang afternoon.
The city has several areas that became a city park, in addition to functioning as the lungs of the city also became a place of recreation for people in this city. Bandung Zoo is one of the tourist area is in great demand by the public, especially during Sundays and school holidays, the zoo was inaugurated in 1933 by the colonial Dutch East Indies and is now managed by Castle Wildlife Foundation. In addition some other tourist areas including shopping malls and factory outlets are also scattered in this city among others, in the area of ​​Jalan Braga, Cihampelas region, Cibaduyut with craftsmen and Cigondewah shoes with textile merchant. Dozens of shopping centers have spread across the city of Bandung, some of which Istana Plaza Bandung, Bandung Indah Plaza, Paris Van Java Mall, Cihampelas Walk, Bandung Super Mall, and Metro Trade Centre. There is also a modern recreation center with a variety of rides such as the Trans Studio Resort Bandung is located in the same location as the Bandung Super Mall.
While some areas are quite famous traditional market in the city including New Market, Market and Market Gedebage Andir. Potential culinary particularly Tutug oncom, pancake, Pepes, and colenak also growing in this city. In addition Cireng also has become a typical serving Bandung, while the fermented kind Peuyeum made from fermented cassava, widely known by the people on the island of Java.
Bandung city is also known as a city filled with memories of the history of the struggle of the people of Indonesia in general, several monuments have been established to commemorate several historical events, including the Monument of Struggle in West Java, Bandung Sea of ​​Fire Monument, Monument Banceuy Jail, Railway Monument and Cemetery of Heroes Cikutra.

Government

In local government administration, led by the mayor of the city of Bandung. Since 2008, the population of these cities directly elect mayors and their representatives in the election, while the previously selected by the city parliament.

Public services

In 2008, the government is planning construction of the Central Power Plant Waste (PLTSa) in Gedebage, but local residents had protested. And in 2010 a new development discourse this PLTSa rolled back, in which the tender will be conducted in November 2010 and the project will begin in early 2011 and is estimated to be completed by the end of 2012.
Meanwhile, to serve the need for clean water, the city government through the taps new city of Bandung today are capable of supplying water to 66% of the total population. This happens due to the decreasing flow of raw water, well water sources in the soil and springs. Meanwhile the use of water resources in the ground in town has played a important role in meeting the needs of drinking water since the city began construction at the end of the 19th century, but along with the development of urban and industrial development, especially coupled with a lack of regulation in the conservation of water resources so as to make water problems drinking more and more complicated and need special penangganan.
Today most of the artesian wells owned taps, no longer function, including the mainstay for the supply of raw water from the river from River Cisangkuy Cilaki through Cipanunjang and Situ Situ Cileunca. Besides the distribution of water to the community is sometimes done in rotation and are also distributed water dirty and muddy at certain hours.

History

The word “Bandung” is derived from the weir or dam because terbendungnya Citarum river by the lava of Mount Tangkuban Perahu ago, forming the lake. Legends told by old people in Bandung that name “Bandung” is taken from a water vehicle which consists of two boats tied up alongside the so-called boat used by the Regent of Bandung Bandung, RA Wiranatakusumah II, to navigate to the Ci Tarum in finding the locus of a new district to replace the old capital in Dayeuhkolot.
Bandung City geographically surrounded by mountains was visible, and this shows that in the past the city of Bandung is a pond or lake. Sangkuriang legend is a legend which tells how the formation of lakes Bandung, and how the formation of Mount Tangkuban Perahu, then how well Bandung, leaving a dry lake basin as it is today. Water from the lake Bandung according to legend was dry because it flows through a cave called Sangkyang Tikoro.
Area last remnants of a dry lake Bandung is Situ Aksan, who in the 1970′s is still the lake where tour, but now has become a residential area for resettlement.
Bandung city began to be used as residential areas since the colonial Dutch East Indies, through the Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels that time, issued a decree dated 25 September 1810 concerning the construction of facilities and infrastructure for this region. Later this event immortalized as the anniversary of the city of Bandung.
Bandung City was officially received the status of gemeente (city) from the Governor-General JB van Heutsz on April 1, 1906 with an area of ​​about 900 ha at the time, and increased to 8,000 ha in 1949, until the last increase to the current area.
During the independence war, on March 24, 1946, part of the city was burned by the freedom fighters as part of war strategy at the time. This event is known as the Bandung Ocean of Fire and immortalized in the song Halo-Halo Bandung. In addition the city was later abandoned by most of its inhabitants who fled to other areas.
On April 18, 1955 at Gedung Merdeka which formerly named “Concordia” (Jl. Asia Africa, current), opposite the Hotel Savoy Homann, held for the first time Asian-African Conference which was then re-Asian-African Summit 2005 held in this city on 19 April-24 April 2005.

Geography

Bandung city is surrounded by mountains, so the morphology territory like a giant bowl, geographically the city is located in the middle of West Java province, and at an altitude of ± 768 m above sea level, with the highest point in being in the north with an altitude 1050 meters above sea level and the south is a low area with a height of 675 meters above sea level.
Bandung city drained the two main rivers, namely Cikapundung and Citarum River and its tributaries, which generally flows to the south and meet in the Citarum River. With such conditions, southern Bandung is very susceptible to flooding problems, especially during the rainy season.
State geological and land in the city of Bandung and its surroundings are formed in the time kwartier and alluvial soil has a layer of the eruption of Mount Tangkuban Parahu. Type of material in the north generally is a type andosol so well in the middle and western regions, while the southern and eastern region consists of the distribution of species with gray alluvial deposits of clay materials.
Semetara Bandung climate influenced by the mountain climate is humid and cool, with an average temperature of 23.5 ° C, average rainfall is 200.4 mm and the number of rainy days on average 21.3 days per month.

Bandung City

  Bandung City is the largest metropolitan city in West Java at once became the capital of the province. The city is located 140 km southeast of Jakarta, and is the third largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya, according to population. While the area of ​​Bandung Raya (Jakarta Metropolitan Area) is the third largest metropolitan area in Indonesia after the Greater Jakarta and Gerbangkertosusila (Grebangkertosusilo). In this historic city, stands a first engineering college in Indonesia (Technische Hoogeschool, now ITB), became the battleground in the kemerdekaa, and had been a venue for the Asian-African Conference of 1955, a meeting that voiced the spirit of anti-colonialism, and even the Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech said that Bandung is the capital of Asia and Africa.
In 1990 the city of Bandung was one of the safest cities in the world by Time magazine survey.
The city flower is another name for this city, because in earlier times was considered very beautiful city with many trees and flowers that grow there. In addition to Bandung was once also called Parijs van Java because of its beauty. Besides the city of Bandung is also known as the town shopping, with malls and factory outlets are widely spread in this city, and now gradually became a city of Bandung is also a culinary tour. And in 2007, the British Council to make the city of Bandung as a pilot project terkreatif town as East Asia. Currently the city of Bandung is one of the main purposes of tourism and education.